Re: Chris Gaffney, 57; witty songwriter, Southern California bar musician; best friend of Dave Alvin
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Gilmer III, while forging another person's internet identity, but,
amazingly, using his own address of <Jose.G...@gmail.com> posted
via:
>From: ["Pyrate/Pirate"John Wesley Gilmer III, who forged another person's
>internet identity, but, amazingly, used his own address of] <Jose.G...@gmail.com>
>Newsgroups: alt.obituaries,alt.fan.frank-zappa
>Subject: Re: Chris Gaffney, 57; witty songwriter, Southern California bar
> musician; best friend of Dave Alvin
>Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:02:29 -0700 (PDT)
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message for which "Pyrate/Pirate"John Wesley Gilmer III posted his
malicious follow-up content.
Chris Gaffney, 57; witty songwriter, Southern California bar musician
http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2008-04/37988898.jpg
Chris Gaffney
By Mike Boehm, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
April 18, 2008
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-me-gaffney18apr18,1,93437.story
Chris Gaffney, a roots-music omnivore whose earthy aplomb and offhand
mastery of many styles made him a quintessential Southern California
bar musician -- but who also earned international regard for his
heartfelt and witty songwriting -- has died. He was 57.
Gaffney had been getting treatment for liver cancer that was diagnosed
in February. His brother Greg said he died Thursday morning at Hoag
Memorial Hospital Presbyterian in Newport Beach, where family members
rushed him after a fall in his Costa Mesa home.
Gaffney toured extensively over the last nine years as a member of
Dave Alvin's backing band, the Guilty Men, playing accordion and
guitar and adding vocals, and as lead singer of the Hacienda Brothers,
in which he teamed with veteran San Diego guitarist Dave Gonzalez.
But Gaffney had been a presence on the regional bar scene since the
1970s, playing multiple sets each night in small clubs such as the
Upbeat in Garden Grove and the Swallows Inn in San Juan Capistrano. It
was a hard-won musician's existence that he and Alvin captured in
their easygoing honky-tonk number "Six Nights a Week."
"One of the things that may have hindered him commercially was that he
couldn't turn it on; he was a hundred percent honest," recalled Alvin,
who considered Gaffney his best friend. "If Chris is in a good mood,
you get an amazing show; if he was in a bad mood, he wouldn't hide
it."
As a songwriter, Gaffney was a peer of Alvin, Los Lobos, X and the Red
Hot Chili Peppers in chronicling the life of Southern California. In
"Artesia," from the 1990 "Chris Gaffney and the Cold Hard Facts"
album, he evoked memories of his teenage years cruising through the
San Gabriel Valley -- remembrances stirred by the scent of cow manure
carried on the wind from inland dairy farms.
"The Gardens," from the same album, and later recorded by Freddy
Fender with the Texas Tornados, was an aching assessment of the void
that gang violence leaves in a community's heart -- in this case,
Hawaiian Gardens.
But many Gaffney songs reflect the dry, sometimes absurdist, sense of
humor that stayed with him in his day-to-day life: "They made a
mistake and they called it me," he sang in one jaunty tune; in another
lyrical self-description he pegs himself as "a dancing cretin with
faraway eyes."
Gaffney sang in a tuneful yet conversational voice that was both
sandpapery and sweet. He had no pretentiousness about his music. In a
1992 Times interview, he described taking part in a songwriters panel
at a folk festival: "The kids were asking, 'How do you write songs?' I
said, 'I'm sitting in front of the TV, having a beer, and something
comes to my mind, and I go 'what the hell' and write it down."
Born in 1950 in Vienna, Austria, he grew up mainly in Cypress, the son
of a telephone company executive. Tall and solidly built, Gaffney
excelled at track and cross country at Western High School in Anaheim
and took his licks as a Golden Gloves boxer.
"I always ascribed his cockeyed view of the world to being beat around
the head a few too many times," Alvin said.
As he built a critically acclaimed recorded repertoire during the
1990s with three studio albums, including "Mi Vida Loca" and "Loser's
Paradise" for Hightone Records, Gaffney was unable to capitalize on it
with touring -- tied instead to his bar hero regimen on top of days
spent scraping hulls at a Newport Beach boatyard.
Gaffney accepted the bar-musician's lot with equanimity: "I was a
working guy before becoming an unheralded roots-music recording
eminence, and I continue to do that. If they don't want to put out an
album, I'll go and do my day job," he told The Times in 1999. What
sustained him, he said, was "the music, and I love the people. You
surround yourself with good friends, and you're good to go."
Starting in 1999, though, Gaffney got to live the life of a musical
road warrior, with Alvin and then the Hacienda Brothers, touring
extensively through the United States and Europe. Alvin said he soon
learned not to give Gaffney a weekly advance on his meal money: "He'd
give it to some homeless guy or a guy standing at a rest stop begging
for change."
With the Hacienda Brothers, who blended classic country and rhythm and
blues styles, Gaffney recorded two studio albums and a live release.
In December, he and Alvin recorded the song "Two Lucky Bums," a mellow
duet to friendship:
Let's make a toast to the times we've had
The good, the crazy, the rough and the bad.
We've survived every one, a couple of losers who won,
And when it's all said and done, we're two lucky bums.
"He might have gone out early, but he did everything he wanted to do,"
said Greg Gaffney, who played bass beside his brother through many of
the bar years. "He loved being on the road, happy in a van with a
bunch of buffoons."
In addition to his brother Greg of Costa Mesa, survivors include his
wife, Julie, of Costa Mesa; daughter Erika of Houston; sister Helen of
Oakland; and brother Robert of Vancouver, Canada.
Services are pending.
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"PYRATE/PIRATE"JOHN WESLEY GILMER III has boasted:
* of being "el presidente" of the Atlantic Beach Vintage
Motorcycle Club (http://www.ABVMC.com);
* of being a proud promoter of Riding Into History
(http://www.RidingIntoHistory.org);
* of competing in an Iron Butt Association 50CC in 2001;
* of his 1998 BMW R1100GS "Robomantis";
* of his 1996 BMW K1100RS mk. II "Franken-K" a/k/a "The
ArrestMeRed K";
* of his 1997 F650;
* of SHE WHO MUST BE OBEYED's bike, a 1986 BMW K100RS Flying Brick
* "...that both [SHE WHO MUST BE OBEYED] and I have passed our
background checks as FEMA subcontractors to help during the next
disaster..." via "Message-ID:
<f953da36-a8d9-4db4...@s50g2000hsb.googlegroups.com>"
* that despite being an ace know-it-all mechanic, a "slipping fan
belt noise" on his Land-Rover Discovery became a $2600 repair after
"The universal joint at the front driveshaft failed... which... put the
flailing end of the drive shaft into the transmission case and destroyed
the tranny."
* of residing in a crappy old Bluebird Wanderlodge bus - license plate
number *C26 2RR* registered in Duval County Florida - that is parked on
rented commercial driveway space [he has no permanent residence nor owns
any real estate]
SHE WHO MUST BE OBEYED is:
DEBORAH LYNCH with whom JOHN WESLEY GILMER III resided at 12526
Agatite Road, Jacksonville, Florida 32258. It is the same DEBORAH
LYNCH (debly...@comcast.net of http://www.deblynchrealtor.com) who
is not worried about her privacy as stated in usenet "Message-ID:
<1106845004....@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>" and
instructed GILMER to "give the jackasses both barrels"...